Reading list

Reading list

SPEP bibliography

Carter N. 2007. The Politics of the Environment. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 📕 ⬇️ 📚
Barry, J. 2012. The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon-Constrained World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 📕 ⬇️

Griggs, D et al. 2013. Sustainable development goals for people and planet. Nature 495 (7441): pp305-307. 📄 ⬇️
Happaerts, S & Bruyninckx, H. 2014. Sustainable development: the institutionalization of a contested policy concept. Advances in International Environmental Politics pp300-327. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 📄 ⬇️
Steffen, W et al. 2015. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science 347(6223): pp736 📄 ⬇️
WAITING FOR DOC. 2019. Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth (Summary). United Nations Environment Programme. 📄 ⬇️ https://www.unep.org/resources/report/decoupling-natural-resource-use-and-environmental-impacts-economic-growth-summary

Owens, S & Cowell, R. 2001. Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process. 1st ed. London: Routledge. 📕📚
Owens, S & Cowell, R. 2011. Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. 📕 ⬇️
Cowell R. 2013. The Greenest government ever? Planning and sustainability after the May 2010 coalition government. Ch3 in Spatial Planning and the New Localism. Abingdon: Routledge 📄 ⬇️

Mackay, D. 2008. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air. 1st ed. Cambridge: UIT. Synopsis. 📕 📄 ⬇️

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